Thursday, 7 March 2019

"Hope You Don't Mind, Found This In The Closet Upstairs."

"Oh, I don't need a degree to figure you out."
This 28mm tall plastic “Wizkids” model of Batman Beyond is miniature number 016 from the Batman The Animated DC "Heroclix" range, and depicts Terry McGinnis after the sixteen year-old High School student assumes the role of Batman in 2039 A.D. Mentored by an elderly Bruce Wayne, the new Dark Knight made his debut in January 1999 on the "Batman Of The Future" American animated television series.

Following the super-hero's removal from his 'clicky-base', the figure was super-glued on to a 25mm circular stand, and hastily primed using two coats of "Citadel" Abaddon Black. Initially I had planned to completely eradicate the costumed crime-fighter's pre-paint job. However, despite an extensive search I was unsuccessful in sourcing a red bat-shaped decal from anywhere, so ultimately was forced to ensure that my brush-tip carefully skirted around the miniature's original chest emblem.
Sharez Jek Android WIPs - The hevaily-armed robot has been dry-brushed and detailed
I also decided against heavily dry-brushing the model with "Vallejo" Heavy Charcoal, as I usually do these days for my predominantly black palettes, as I wanted the masked vigilante to appear as jet black as he does in the cartoon. This meant that all I needed to do to complete the miniature was to 'pick-out' his futuristic utility belt with a combination of "Citadel" Ironbreaker and Nuln Oil, and dot in the bat-suit's technologically advanced eyes with a little dab of "Vallejo" White.

 Stepping away from super-heroes I have made some good progress on my five-man squad of Sharez Jek Androids by "Black Tree Design". The figures are predominantly black in colour, so I have spent some time heavily dry-brushing them in "Vallejo" Heavy Charcoal so as to 'lighten' them up a bit, and also 'picked out' the electronic eye of a pilot piece with "Citadel" Ironbreaker to see whether it looks better than them having plain white heads...
"Toon Realms" WIPs - Rookie The Elf, Rookie The Dragonlord and Rankle The Dwarf
With the recent arrival of my "Caverns Of The Frog King" order by "Lucid Eye Publications", I have suddenly found myself facing a bit of an uphill challenge with the amount of unpainted "Toon Realms" stuff I own. Resultantly, I have decided to try and focus upon a few of the range's 'older' heroes, whilst simultaneously finishing off the remaining skeletons I need to pigment for my "Dragon Rampant" Undead army.

 One of the strengths of "Osprey Games" rule-set is that you can field single or reduced model units, so with that in mind I've realised a 'Men of The West' warband just featuring the likes of Rookie The Dragonlord, Pootle the Wizard, Rookie The Elf, and Rankle The Dwarf would easily provide me with a similar-costing force to Lord Rascal's evil minions...
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16 comments:

  1. Simon Quinton 7 March 2019 at 13:58

    Excellent job on this version of Batman. One of my favourite cartoon series of him as well.

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    1. Blaxkleric7 March 2019 at 14:01

      Thanks very much Simon. I'm pleased with how he turned out, and especially glad I was able to paint around the decal.

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  2. Ivor Evans7 March 2019 at 19:32

    Brilliant! Ended up really loving Batman Beyond after initially being against the concept. How good was the BB 'Return of the Joker' movie!! Another favorite of mine 😃

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    1. Blaxkleric7 March 2019 at 23:06

      Cheers Ivor. I loved Batman Beyond, and thought the baton pass was well done tbh. Pity “DC Comics” didn’t capture its spirit with their comic book series. “Return Of The Joker” was indeed an awesome movie :-)

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  3. Clint8 March 2019 at 01:35

    Unpainted lead, the bane of us all.

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  4. Wouter8 March 2019 at 03:16

    Very nice repaint on the Batman mini.
    The rest looks great too, I really like these elf figures.

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    1. Blaxkleric8 March 2019 at 10:18

      Thanks Wouter. I have a few "Toon Realms" Elf warriors coming to this blog soon ;-)

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  5. Undercoat9 March 2019 at 07:25

    Batman looks really great. I like the pure black look a lot. More cute toon realms stuff is always a delight to see.

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    1. Blaxkleric9 March 2019 at 08:14

      Cheers Undercoat. Its good to get the odd "Heroclix" out of my system from time to time, and have another one to post soon :-)

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  6. Dave Stone10 March 2019 at 07:29

    Great work on the Batman beyond model Simon, the others are progressing nicely

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    1. Blaxkleric10 March 2019 at 09:13

      Thanks Dave. Simple stuff as you can probably imagine. Hope all your preparations for "Salute" are going well? Not long now, eh?

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    2. Dave Stone10 March 2019 at 10:30

      slowly getting there, over half the casting is done, and a lot of the displays have been sorted, might even get a blog post done this week ! LOL

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    3. Blaxkleric10 March 2019 at 12:14

      Marvellous news, Dave. I look forward to seeing what you have on offer in a few weeks time :-)

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  7. Zabadak11 March 2019 at 05:05

    A 'Batman' I'd never heard of (no surprise there), but interesting nevertheless - good work on the chest symbol btw.
    Some very interesting new toon-types on the way.

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    1. Blaxkleric11 March 2019 at 10:56

      Cheers Joe. I'm really glad I managed to retain the "Heroclix" bat emblem decal on his chest as my free-hand would never have been so precise.

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